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Watch out, headphone may cost your life
Tuesday January 17, 2012 11:21:46 AM,
IANS
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London: Researchers
have found a dramatic rise in injuries to people using headphones
while walking on the streets and have warned of serious accidents
involving pedestrians using electronic devices, such as iPods and
mobile phones.
There is rising concern about the near trance-like state people
can apparently enter while using mobile phones, MP3 players or
electronic personal organisers, the Daily Mail reported.
Psychologists view it as "divided attention" or "inattentional
blindness".
The research, published in the Injury Prevention journal, analysed
US data taken from US National Electronic Injury Surveillance
System, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Google news
archives and a university research database between 2004 to last
year on injuries to pedestrians using headphones.
Cases involving mobile phones, including hands-free, or cyclists
were excluded.
There were a total of 116 reports of death or injury, jumping from
16 in 2004-05 to 47 in 2010-11 during the study period. In a total
of 81 of the 116 collisions, 70 percent led to person's death. In
a quarter of the cases a warning such as a horn or siren was
sounded before the crash.
Two out of three victims were men and under the age of 30, with
around one in ten of all cases under the age of 18. Nine out of
ten cases occurred in urban areas and more than half of the
victims were struck by trains.
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